Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Gaming Jargon

Hi guys
This is going to be a wired post for anyone who is experienced at gaming, but I am going to talk you through all of the acronyms and terms for gaming, lets get into it.
FPS: First Person Shooter, examples include, Call of Duty, Battlefield 3, Crysis.
TPS: Third Person Shooter, usually just called Third Person Shooter, examples include, Uncharted 3, Gears of War, etc.
RPG: Role Play Game, this means that you fill the role of a person you wouldn't normally be. Developers can be very cunning as to what they call a RPGso just be careful, examples include Skyrim, Fallout, most online games.
MMO, Massively Multiplayer Online, these games are only for the PC-but will be coming to consoles in the form of Final Fantasy- they are games that through millions of people into one map and see the results, usually they have a PvP area, so stay out of there until you are skilled enough.
MMO-RPG, this is the combo of the above 2.
JRPG, Japanese Role Play Game, this is your normal RPG but it is from Japan, as the name suggests, these usually have a unique art style and have a very different approach to combat, examples include, Final Fantasy, Ni No Kuni, and many more but they can be hard to get hold of for certain series.
Patch, this means that the people who made the game are adding or improving things post launch, these come in the for of Patches.
Patch Sub categories: Buff, this is when the developers increase the power, range weight,etc of a gun/weapon.
                                 Nerf, this is when the developers make that weapon/gun/character worse.
Dev, they are the developers of a game, usually shortened to Dev.
MP, Multiplayer, this is just a acronym for the Multiplayer.
SP, Single player, this is just a acronym for the Singleplayer.
ONLINE TERMS:
TDM: Team Death Match, 2 teams going head to head to get to a set number of kills before the other team.
CTF: Capture The Flag, also 2 teams trying to steal the other teams flag and get it back to their base alive.
DM: Death Match, (also called FFA which means Free For All) which sees every player fighting for themselves.
MAJOR SERIES:
FF: Final Fantasy
AC: Assassins Creed
CoD: Call of Duty
BF: Battlefield
That is the end of this post on gaming jargon, I hope you found some or all of it helpful, thank you for reading.
Ed

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